NY Guardsmen to cut cake for Army’s 239th birthday

LATHAM, N.Y. (AP) >> A surgeon with nearly four decades of military service and a young member of the New York National Guard will do the honors of cutting a cake celebrating the U.S. Army’s 239th birthday.

Friday afternoon’s traditional cake-cutting ceremony at National Guard headquarters in suburban Albany commemorates the Army’s birthday on June 14, 1775. That’s the date when the Continental Congress voted to adopt the New England colonial militia troops facing off against British redcoats outside Boston.